Full Description
This book is intended to be concise yet highly informative and user friendly. It provides quick information of drug doses, adverse effects, contraindications of use and special precautions which has to be undertaken during therapy. The contents will be especially helpful not only for the students, but also for the busy practitioners.
The clinical pearls and the comparative study of drugs discussed at the end of the chapters are for instant overview. This book precisely covers almost all important chapters of Pharmacology and would provide important at hand information for postgraduate aspirants too for their entrance examinations.
Contents
1. Introduction to General Pharmacology
2. General Anesthetics
3. Parenteral Anesthetics
4. Hypnotics and Sedatives
5. Skeletal Muscle Relaxants
6. Drugs Used in Reversal of Neuromuscular Block
7. Anticholinergic Drugs Used in Anesthesia
8. Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory and Antipyretic Analgesics
9. Centrally Acting Analgesics—OPIOIDS
10. Local Anesthetics
11. Drug Used in Nausea and Vomiting
12. Drugs for Peptic Ulcer Disease
13. Drugs for Respiratory Disease
14. Drugs for Cough
15. Drugs Acting on Cardiovascular System
16. Ischemic Heart Disease 158
17. Diuretics
18. Drugs used in Parkinsonism
19. Antidepressants
20. Drugs Acting on the Endocrine System
21. Oxygen Therapy and Humidification
22. Drug Therapy in Special Cases
23. Management of Emergency Situations
24. Anticoagulants, Fibrinolytics and Antiplatelet Agents
Index